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No escape from narcos for Mexican beauty queen

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Associated Press/February 2012 Maria Susana Flores Gamez, after being crowned Sinaloa Woman 2012 in Culiacan, Mexico.

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Associated Press/Jan. 28, 2013 The mausoleum where beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez is buried, in a cemetery in Guamuchil, Mexico.

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If you had asked her that February weekend, the new Sinaloa Woman would have said the future she'd chosen was clear: a calendar of pageants as far away as China, a chance to compete for the coveted Miss Sinaloa title, and then, Miss Mexico.But Susy, as she was called, had chosen another path at the crossroads of power and beauty in a state known for drug lords and pageant queens. It was a fateful choice.
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    • Associated Press/February 2012 Maria Susana Flores Gamez, after being crowned Sinaloa Woman 2012 in Culiacan, Mexico.
    • Associated Press/Jan. 28, 2013 The mausoleum where beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez is buried, in a cemetery in Guamuchil, Mexico.
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